Workforce Challenges & DDS Waiver Services Analysis
Autism Spectrum Disorder Task Force (1 of 2)
Build upon the foundation of the Taskforce to develop and inform a cross-disability advisory council.
Transformational systems change happens when people with disabilities and their families are truly involved in policy
making so that they influence planning, policy, implementation, research, and revision of the practices that affect them.
Modernizing the system to support children and their families, across disabilities, requires new ways of collaborating and
thinking.
Just as the system will become cross-disability, so too should the advisory body:
o Design, recruit, and support a cross-disability advisory committee to refine these recommendations, vet an
implementation roadmap, and share feedback on design.
The new body should be majority people with disabilities and their families. They are the context experts on the
systems that support them.
Ensure diversity in disability (for example, representation by people with autism and their families; people with
intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families; etc.) as well as regional and other diversity
Remaining positions are for traditional subject matter content experts.
State agencies participate in a non-voting role. The lead state agency should also help facilitate the meeting,
providing logistical support to the group.
Promising practice states include Ohio, Indiana, and the District of Columbia.
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